Physics of Music PHY103 Worksheet #8 Set up for Room Acoustics Lab 1. Calculating with decibels. Consider a wall that absorbs 50% of the sound intensity. A 50dB (decibel) loud sound is directed toward this wall. What would the loudness be (in dB) after one reflection? After 10 reflections? A decibel (dB) is 10×log10(sound intensity or power) + constant. 2. Sound travel time. The speed of sound in air is 331.4 m/s. a) How long does it take sound to travel from one end of a 10m long room to the other end? b) For a sound wave traveling back and forth in this room, how many reflections can take place in 1second?3. Exponential decay Consider a model for exponential decay corresponding to the following equation: where h is the exponential decay timescale, t is time and A is a constant. By taking the natural log of both sides show that What do you expect a plot of t vs to look like? What sets the slope on such a
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